Strong's #4631: m`arah (pronounced meh-aw-raw')

from 5783; a cavern (as dark):--cave, den, hole.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

me‛ârâh

1) cave, den, hole

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H5783

Usage:

This word is used 39 times:

 

Genesis 19:30: "he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters."
Genesis 23:9: "That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field;"
Genesis 23:11: "hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons"
Genesis 23:17: "was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that"
Genesis 23:19: "Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before"
Genesis 23:20: "And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burial place by"
Genesis 25:9: "and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron"
Genesis 49:29: "me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,"
Genesis 49:30: " In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre,"
Genesis 49:32: "The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth."
Genesis 50:13: "him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham"
Joshua 10:16: "kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah."
Joshua 10:17: "kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah."
Joshua 10:18: "stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep"
Joshua 10:22: "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five"
Joshua 10:22: "kings unto me out of the cave."
Joshua 10:23: "kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem,"
Joshua 10:27: "off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein"
Joshua 10:27: "wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth,"
Judges 6:2: "them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strongholds."
1 Samuel 13:6: "were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits."
1 Samuel 22:1: "thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all"
1 Samuel 24:3: "the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover"
1 Samuel 24:3: "and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave."
1 Samuel 24:7: "Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way."
1 Samuel 24:8: "afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul,"
1 Samuel 24:10: "had delivered thee today into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared"
2 Samuel 23:13: "in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched"
1 Kings 18:4: "prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)"
1 Kings 18:13: "men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave,"
1 Kings 19:9: "And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word"
1 Kings 19:13: "and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said,"
1 Chronicles 11:15: "to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped"
Psalms 57:1: "when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful"
Psalms 142:1: "of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice;"
Isaiah 2:19: "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear"
Isaiah 32:14: "and towers shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses,"
Jeremiah 7:11: "by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even"
Ezekiel 33:27: "to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence."